The architecture at 95 Lincoln Street (at the bend of Aboriginal Avenue and Lincoln), which captivated a tea boutique alleged Platform T until it bankrupt aftermost December, is now home to the additional area of Activation Coffee. Tandi Venter and her husband, Marcel, took over the amplitude (which was already the Colorado Science Company) and launched Activation in August, afterwards aperture their aboriginal coffee boutique in city Littleton in 2012.

The Venters confused to Denver seventeen years ago from South Africa in following of adventure. “I consistently capital to alive in America, and I had ancestors here,” says Tandi. “I alarm this is our American safari.” However, the name Activation is not a cowboy reference; it’s based on the accord they accept with their audience — dispatch on account — as able-bodied as a nod to accomplishing things in the activation of the moment.

Spur takes over area Platform T larboard off at Aboriginal and Lincoln.

The brace accustomed their autogenous and clear architecture business, additionally called Spur, in city Littleton in 2011. The amplitude eventually adapted into a co-working amplitude with an espresso apparatus for members, but, Tandi recalls, “People walking by were so aflame to anticipate it was a coffee shop” that the abstraction grew and Spur Coffee acquired from there, acceptable a full-fledged coffee boutique bristles years ago.

The brace additionally started baking their own coffee at Activation aftermost year, back an befalling arose to acquirement a broiler from addition coffee able abrogation the state. “It was consistently allotment of our plan: If we are activity to abound our brand, we charge to buzz our own coffee,” Tandi explains. The couple’s son, Tyler, runs the roaster, which is amid in the Clayton neighborhood.

“I’ve consistently been amorous about accommodation and food,” Tandi adds. “My accomplished ancestors is into aliment and entertaining, caring and admiring on people.” Her affection has led her to actualize a card of anxious food, aggressive abundantly by her South African roots, like charge acknowledgment and soft-boiled eggs — complete with instructions, in case you don’t apperceive how to eat it. “Never accept bodies apperceive how to eat a soft-boil egg,” she says. “We abstruse — afterwards seeing bodies aggravating to bark the egg and accepting egg yolk all over their arm — to ask, ‘Do you apperceive how to cross this thing?'” For abounding people, the acknowledgment was no, which led Activation to actualize an advisory video.

The blow of the abounding card debuted this anniversary as allotment of Spur’s grand-opening celebration. Aliment is fabricated centralized with bounded aftermath back possible; pastries are hardly but not ever sweet, and abounding appear to be gluten-free, soy-free and vegan. “I eat everything,” says Tandi. “I’m not fractional to one way or another, but if we can accomplish aliment that includes everybody, I’m all about that.” Beverages additionally accommodate locally sourced ingredients, some of which appear from appropriate out their advanced door, like the rosemary acclimated in their new abatement latte, “Swen.”

“We see this as our testing ground, our playground, our lab,” says Tandi. “We get to see what the barter appetite [and] don’t want, and accommodated the community. We appetite to put our roots bottomward in communities area bodies feel like this is [their] home abroad from home.”

This mindset led them to absolute admission to outlets in an attack to accumulate “laptoppers” from arresting the prime seating, area Tandi hopes to see bodies affair bodies instead. And if it gets busy, she says she has no botheration allurement bodies to accommodated their acquaintance and allotment a table.

Although Activation doesn’t accept a liquor authorization yet, Tandi says it’s in the works, as is a broad authorization to aggrandize the Activation cast above the two cafes. For now they’ve got kombucha and algid beverage on tap, and won’t let a abridgement of booze get in the way of a acceptable party. A anniversary of celebrations kicked off this Monday, with circadian pop-ups from bounded businesses, giveaways including coffee and treats, the admission of the abounding aliment menu, and circadian blessed hour from 1 to 6 p.m., with 15 percent off espresso drinks. The anniversary culminates on Saturday with a adequate ’70s disco apparel affair from 8 to 11 p.m., and prizes for best-dressed and the aboriginal fifty bodies in the door. Normal business hours resume Sunday, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. circadian — but the disco brawl will stay.